http://ota.fas.org/2009/03/31/restart-the-congressional-office-of-technology-assessment/ Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, science, technology, policy Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:25:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://ota.fas.org/2009/03/31/restart-the-congressional-office-of-technology-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-925 Fahad Khan Sat, 14 May 2011 00:25:00 +0000 http://fas.org/ota/?p=247#comment-925 Really nice post and blog. I hope to read more information in your posts thanks.

]]> http://ota.fas.org/2009/03/31/restart-the-congressional-office-of-technology-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-660 Robert F. Miller Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:31:55 +0000 http://fas.org/ota/?p=247#comment-660 The OTA proved to be a vital function for Congress and it served as a model for the world to emulate. As I recall the OTA publications were very often one the few government publications that all got distributed rather than lying around in a large archived pile. The reports that came out of OTA were remarkable for their clarity and utility; they achieved their objective of being politically neutral and unbiased in their content. The trouble OTA had was the new Republican right didn’t want objective data, because their emergent constituency wanted to create their own science. So the Newt Gingrich Republicans did away with an office that was the envry of the world. Many countries who had tried to emulate OTA were shocked to see that the United States had gutted such a useful model. Bringing OTA back would go a long way to restoring our capacity to create objective reports at a time Congress badly needs information that is reliable. It was tragic when OTA was cutoff, it would be wonderful to see it return.

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